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Ken interviews NJ State Senator Mike Testa. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now more of the Mark Simone show on seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten wor filling in for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosotto.
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  Speaker 2: And it is a Friday morning. It is Halloween. Are
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  Speaker 2: you dressing up? Are you going out? At what age?
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  Speaker 2: Is it too old to go out? You know that
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  Speaker 2: Halloween actually has its date going back to the eighth century,
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  Speaker 2: and it was adults who dressed up for Halloween. It
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  Speaker 2: was a religious holiday. Just give me a little son
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  Speaker 2: you could chat about. No, it was not a pagan holiday.
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  Speaker 2: It was similar to Sowen, but it's not a pagan holiday.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually a Christian holiday. Anyway, Mark is off today,
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  Speaker 2: Ken Rosatto in New Jersey, Republican state Senator Michael Testa
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  Speaker 2: is here to talk about the federal Schumer Democrat government shutdown,
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  Speaker 2: on the fact that's starting tomorrow, SNAP benefits will not
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  Speaker 2: go out to eight hundred thousand New Jersey residents. We
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  Speaker 2: say good morning to Senator.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's good to be back with you. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I think for Halloween. I heard what you were saying
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  Speaker 1: earlier when I grew up. You know, I was a
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  Speaker 1: child of the eighties. When you were about twelve thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: you were supposed to stop trick or treating, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell you at my house, I see
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  Speaker 1: some kids who are you know, probably able to drink
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic beverages legally, who are still, you know, walking around
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  Speaker 1: my neighborhood asking for candy. I don't necessarily love that idea.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that they get in the spirit, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that you pointed out that All Hallows Eve is
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  Speaker 1: not a pagan holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Right, believe it or not. I mean, the term Hollows
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  Speaker 2: refers to the Saints because tomorrow is All Saints Day,
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  Speaker 2: so All Hollows Eve is the eve before All Hollows
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  Speaker 2: which was All Saints Day. That's where it started eighth
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  Speaker 2: century and it was a way of honoring the Saints
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  Speaker 2: in the church. But a lot of people today it's
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  Speaker 2: been co opted and people, oh, it's a pagan holiday. No,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't. So that's why we dressed up. It was
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  Speaker 2: you dressed up like a saint, or you're dressed up
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  Speaker 2: like a skeleton to remind you of your mortality. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I digress. We should talk about the Let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: the snap situation. Eight hundred thousand New Jersey residents who
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  Speaker 2: depend on snap to eat. As of tomorrow, the benefits
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  Speaker 2: are cut off. And that's all because five Democrats in
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  Speaker 2: the US Senate will not shift ranks and vote with Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: This is awful.
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  Speaker 1: Look they're using needy people as pawns. And let's also
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  Speaker 1: take note of the fact that we have air traffic
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  Speaker 1: controllers right now at large airports like Newark Airport, who
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  Speaker 1: are not being paid, working multiple shifts. From what I'm told,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting paychecks that literally say zero on them. They're
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  Speaker 1: being given them, but they say zero. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's one hundred percent true or not, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the rumor that I've heard. This shutdown is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent due to the Democrats. It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump. And it amazes me how supposed legitimate
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  Speaker 1: news sources are trying to put the blame on the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: trying to put the blame on President Trump. And they
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  Speaker 1: use the line, well, you have control of the White House,
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  Speaker 1: the Senate, and the Congress, And I say, you know
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  Speaker 1: what's really sad about that? You folks don't even have
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual honesty to say that it takes sixty votes
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate to overcome the filibuster, which the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have rejected thirteen times. They have voted no thirteen times.
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  Speaker 1: And make no mistake, Andy Kim and Corey Booker, the
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  Speaker 1: US senators from the state of New Jersey, have voted
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  Speaker 1: no each and every time. If people are missing out
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  Speaker 1: on benefits, blame them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just to remind everyone, we're listening to New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: Republican state Senator Michael Testa. This is Ken Rosotto in
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  Speaker 2: from Mark Simon today on your Friday Halloween, and this
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  Speaker 2: is what is sad. We don't know if they're truly stupid,
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  Speaker 2: and I think in many cases they just ignorant. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the younger reporters don't get it, they really don't,
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  Speaker 2: or if they're just being disingenuous. They know. But it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't fit the narrative to say that it's the fault
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  Speaker 2: of five Democrats. Listen, whenever we had, and we had
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  Speaker 2: many times in history, Democrats in charge and there was
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  Speaker 2: a handful of Republicans holding things up, all of the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats and mainstream media blamed the Republicans. It was the
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  Speaker 2: Republican shutdown, the Republican shutdown, and we took a hit
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  Speaker 2: for it. On the Republican side. You can't have it
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  Speaker 2: the opposite way. You can't say, now that the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are in the minority and the Republicans have the majority,
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  Speaker 2: that the five votes we need in the Senate, that
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  Speaker 2: it's still the Republican's fault. How could it be the
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  Speaker 2: Republican's fault both ways?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that just goes to show you how biased the
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  Speaker 1: media has been. And thank God for people like you
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  Speaker 1: who are actually intellectually honest and not intellectually disingenuous as
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  Speaker 1: so many members of the media have been, including where
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  Speaker 1: we saw it probably at its worst during the COVID shutdowns.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't need to get to that. Look. I
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  Speaker 1: released a statement that really put the blame where it
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  Speaker 1: belongs in the lapse of the Democrats in Washington. I
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  Speaker 1: called on Governor Murphy and I'm glad that he I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he directly responded to my release, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy to see Governor Murphy and the majority
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  Speaker 1: Senate President's Katarian Assembly Speaker Coughlan announce an accelerated delivery
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  Speaker 1: of forty two point five million dollars in food and
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  Speaker 1: hunger grants. Because I can tell you I represent Cumberland
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  Speaker 1: County and Cumberland County is one of the two poorest
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  Speaker 1: counties in the state of New Jersey, with families that
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  Speaker 1: desperately need food, they desperately need distance, and this will
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  Speaker 1: go a long way to do that. So this is
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  Speaker 1: one area where I will say that Governor Murphy, Senate
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  Speaker 1: President's Katari, and Assembly Speaker Coughland have acted. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: what did they do though, They blamed the Republicans in
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  Speaker 1: Washington as well, instead of just accepting it and saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, what's going on in Washington is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: They could have kept it neutral, but no, what did
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  Speaker 1: they do. They blamed the Republicans in Washington. So yet
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  Speaker 1: more of the spin that is just completely false.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the biggest, the biggest joke, Senator, is that this
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  Speaker 2: is not a budget plan. This is only a continuation
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  Speaker 2: of last year's budget plan, which all the Democrats voted
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  Speaker 2: for to approve. So it was good enough a year
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  Speaker 2: ago when Biden was president, but it's suddenly not good
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  Speaker 2: enough for one more month so that they could get
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  Speaker 2: back open the government again and vote on a new
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  Speaker 2: spending plan. It's obvious they know that they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to get anything that they want for the new spending plan.
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  Speaker 2: So they're just trying to play like a bunch of kids,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the playground, taking their ball in their
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  Speaker 2: bat and going home. And they're just being childish. And
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime they're making people suffer.
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  Speaker 1: They absolutely are. And very similar to Rama Manual, Rama Manual,
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  Speaker 1: sort of the mast head. If we remember, for Democrat philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: never allow a crisis to go to waste, and the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in Washington, including United States Senators Corey Booker and
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  Speaker 1: Andy Kim, are not allowing this manufactured crisis to go
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  Speaker 1: to waste.
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  Speaker 2: Well, according to CNN, right now, the American people are
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  Speaker 2: blaming the Democrats for it. In fact, President Trump's approval
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  Speaker 2: writing has gone up a point since the government shut down.
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  Speaker 2: So and in spite of that fact, President Trump is
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  Speaker 2: saying we have to end it. He could. The way
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  Speaker 2: it's going, he could keep the shutdown going two more months.
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  Speaker 2: His his approval rating will keep going up. He's saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: end it now, just go nuclear, get fifty one votes
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  Speaker 2: instead of sixty, change the rules of the Senate, and
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  Speaker 2: make it happen. The problem is once you go nuclear,
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  Speaker 2: once that's that and we don't want to. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want to ruin that rule, all right. State Senator New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey Michael Testa. Always a pleasure talking to you. Fingers
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  Speaker 2: crossed at this stops because real people are really going
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  Speaker 2: to suffer, and we hope the Democrats come around. We
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you coming on today. Happy Halloween, Bet.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, you Bet, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly sunny, a little drier today his It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be probably mid fifties but very windy, so make sure
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  Speaker 2: you bundle the kids up. It's Ken Rozantowin from Mark
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  Speaker 2: on your Halloween Friday seven to ten wo R. We're
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  Speaker 2: coming right back